Your fav symphony, composed in the last 100 years?

[JHC]

So that's what the kids nowadays are calling it, eh?

Really some guy, what on earth do you mean ? its hard for a simple colonial boy to keep up with your razor wit

 

[thirdcreed]

HaHa Well I've been leaning to a sort of relativistic view of music appreciation, but now that I know that there's a ultimate standard it feels like i'm on solid ground again. I've changed all my favorite pieces of music to your's, and have been combing through the archives to revise my opinion to your own in practically every matter. What a relief!

 

[JHC]

thirdcreed, I see in your profile you play in bands, what instrument/s do you play?

 

[thirdcreed]

Principally piano, then Organ (Hammond B3, not pipe organ), trumpet, accordion and guitar. I sing alot of the time as well. I also serve as a arranger for instrumental parts and as a songwriter. So, I wore alot of hats in the bands I was in. The last band I was in played as Wanda Jackson's band during her showcase In SXSW.

I play alot more instruments in my class at the public school I teach at, but I'm not profecient enough to play in front of others my own age.

That's probably more than you were asking for, but there's an overview of my activity in the local bands i'm in.

 

[Contratrombone64]

A few more (max one per composer):

1911 GLIERE - Symphony 3 in B minor "Ilya Muromets"
1913 BANTOCK - Hebridean symphony
1915 SIBELIUS - Symphony 5 in E flat major
1922 NIELSEN - Symphony 5
1922 BLISS - A colour symphony
1930 HANSON - Symphony 2 "Romantic"
1933 SCHMIDT - Symphony 4 in C major
1934 HINDEMITH - Mathis der Maler
1935 BAX - Symphony 6
1937 MOERAN - Symphony in G Minor
1941 SHOSTAKOVICH - Symphony 7 in C major "Leningrad"
1941 LEIFS - Saga symphony
1943 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS - Symphony No. 5 in D
1944 PROKOFIEV - Symphony 5 in B Flat major
1948 MESSIAEN - Turangalila symphony
1951 LILBURN - Symphony 2
1976 GORECKI - Symphony 3 "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs"
1980 SILVESTROV - Symphony 5
1982 HOVHANESS - Symphony 50 "Mount St. Helens"
1990 SALLINEN - Symphony 6 "From a New Zealand Diary"
1994 RAUTAVAARA - Symphony 7 "Angel of Light"

Draging this thread back on topic!!!

Thanks - art rock, my friend. You've listed some important works I've never heard - I'll keep my ears open for them, promise!

 

[JHC]

Bantock is a composer that I can live without as are a few of the others but good to see our man Doug Lilburn mentioned and personally I prefer VW's 6th but yes some not so popular composers there, interesting

 

[parthenon]

Webern's.

 

[mathetes1963]

My top two are:
1. Howard Hanson: Symphony No 2 "Romantic"
2. Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No 5 - and the BPO/Karajan recording of this has never been bested, IMHO

Sorry, but I'm either not sufficiently familiar with any other modern symphonies, or else haven't heard any I would consider "favorite". But these two a great start, no?

 

[Contratrombone64]

hey there mathetes1963, good to see you posting at least once in a blue moon. I agree about Hanson's Romantic Symphony, it's a fine work. Also love Prokofiev's 5th, though not that version, much prefer the London Symphony's "live" set of the lot.

 

[Corno Dolce]

Mahler's 8th...

 

[mathetes1963]

Oh, I'm usually lurking about, even when I don't post...
BTW, are we strictly limiting ourselves here to "symphony", or are going to allow "symphonic work"? In that case I definitely would add that list.

 

[White Knight]

Shostakovich--Symphony No.7 in C Major, Op.60 {"Leningrad"}.